This guide, now in a fully updated sixth edition, offers a selection of
some of the best winter routes to be found in the Cairngorms and on
Creag Meagaidh.
The granite peaks of the Cairngorms have extensive areas
of high plateau and four peaks of over 4000ft, while Creag Meagaidh is
noted for its classic ice climbs.
Well-known routes on Lochnagar are
also covered here, as well as the more remote and serious climbs on
Braeriach. With something to suit all winter climbers here in the heart
of Scotland, the Cairngorms has it all.
Routes are illustrated in 51
colour photo topos and include a wide range of grades, lengths and
styles, from straightforward to exceptionally difficult.
All routes
require a solid mountaineering or climbing background.
Cairngorms North
Overview map
Coire an t-Sneachda
The Mess of Pottage
Aladdin’s Buttress
Fluted Buttress
Fiacaill Buttress
Coire an Lochain
Number 1 Buttress
Number 2 Buttress
Number 3 Buttress
Number 4 Buttress
Lurcher’s Crag (Creag an Leth-Choin)
Sron na Lairige
Carn Etchachan
The Lower Cliff, Main Face
The Upper Cliff, Main Face
The Gully Face
Shelter Stone Crag
Garbh Uisge Crag
Hell’s Lum Crag
Stag Rocks
Left-hand Section
Right-hand Section
Stac an Fharaidh
East Flank
West Flank
The Cairntoul/Braeriach Amphitheatre
Angel’s Peak
Corrie of the Chokestone Gully
Garbh Choire Mor
Garbh Choire Dhaidh
Coire Bhrochain
Coire an Lochain
The Corries of Beinn a’Bhuird
Coire na Ciche
Coire an Dubh Lochain
Garbh Choire
Coire Sputan Dearg
Grey Man’s Crag Area
Snake Ridge Area
The Central Buttresses
Creagan a’Choire Etchachan
Cairngorms South
Overview map
Lochnagar
The Southern Sector
Perseverance Wall
The Cathedral
The Northern Sector
Central and Shadow Buttress Group
Eagle Ridge and the Parallel Buttress Group
Black Spout Pinnacle
West Buttress Group
Creag an Dubh Loch
Eagles Rocks
Mid-West Buttress
Mid-East Buttress
Broad Cairn Bluffs
Glen Clova
Winter Corrie
Corrie Fee
Creag Meagaidh
Overview map
Creag Meagaidh
Girdle Traverse
Bellevue Buttress
Raeburn’s Gully Buttress
Pinnacle Buttress
The Post Face
The Inner Corrie
